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Read More THAI or Die… Andrej from Bakunin learns Thai recently reminded me that the registration for the Tadoku challenge, Read More or Die, is now open for July. From Read More or Die… The three basic Tadoku principles: Read without using a dictionary. If you can’t read it without using a dictionary, read something [...]

iPhone App: Talking Thai-English-Thai Dictionary… Last year I reviewed the Three-Way Talking Thai Software Dictionary by Chris Pirazzi and Benjawan Poomsan Becker. I ended the post with: Ah, before I go… coming next from Chris and Benjawan is an iPhone version of the Three-Way Talking Thai Dictionary. And you can better bet that I’ll be [...]

Please vote for your TOP Thai Blog… You might not know this, but there’s a competition going on. The guys at GO! Overseas collected a range of Thai blogs and they’d like you to vote for your favourite. And that goes for me as well ;-) You can see the selection here: Blogs We Love [...]

Thai-English English-Thai Software Dictionary… In September Chris and Benjawan gifted readers at WLT with two of their new software dictionaries, so I announced them with a draw: Win a FREE Thai-English English-Thai Software Dictionary. Amy Praphantanathorn (Expat Women in Thailand) and Talen (Thailand Land of Smiles) did the honours (thanks you two!) The lucky winners [...]

The Thai-English English-Thai Software Dictionary draw…… Chris and Benjawan’s Thai-English English-Thai Software Dictionary is such a fabulous product to give away. And readers at WLT were gifted with two. To keep the draw manageable, I followed the simple method in Teach Yourself Thai Complete. Both of them. Amy Praphantanathorn (Expat Women in Thailand) folded numbered [...]

Announcing the second WLT free draw… Curious. Is there such a thing as a paid draw? Not sure. Anyway… after WLT’s first free draw went off ok – Complete Thai: David Smyth Updates Teach Yourself Thai – I decided that giving away free stuff will be a regular item. A good thing, because I’m sitting [...]

The Teach Yourself Thai Complete draw… again… Well, this is a fun outcome (as well as a fabulous selling point for David Smyth’s new TYT). Last week I wrote a review and announced a draw: Complete Thai: David Smyth Updates Teach Yourself Thai. And I didn’t do it alone, I had help from two fabulous [...]

The Teach Yourself Thai Complete draw… Running a draw can be loads of work, so I aimed to keep this one simple. I went to two fabulous bloggers in the Thai language community, Kaewmala (Thai Women Talks) and Ajarn Pasa (Tweet Yourself Thai) and asked for help. Kaewmala threw numbers into a beautifully coloured bowl, [...]

David Smyth updates Teach Yourself Thai … Only a handful of Thai courses are highly thought of, and David Smyth’s Teach Yourself Thai is at the very top of that list. When I asked polyglot Stu Jay Raj which books he’d recommend to students of the Thai language, David’s Teach Yourself Thai was the only [...]